cromlech
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The cromlech built in Langemark, Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2014
The charcoal sample that was thus dated came from an excavated pit at Stonehenge, the great "megalithic cromlech" on England's Salisbury Plain that has mystified scientists since Roman times.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cromlech itself is very imposing, with massive side supports, six or seven feet high, and a mighty covering stone, flat on the under side.
From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson
This monument of antiquity is considered to have been the supporting part of a cromlech; but the stones being so far asunder invalidates the conjecture.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
The ancient Irish sometimes buried as we do now, placing the body in the grave, over which they often raised a cairn or a cromlech.
From A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. Joyce
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